DISQUALIFIED FOR LIFE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2700, 26 February 1924, Page 2

DISQUALIFIED FOR LIFE.

THE TROTTING CASE. Christchurch. Last Night. In response to the Board of the New Zealand Trotting Association’s summons to show cause why he >ln>nld not In l dealt with for breaches of the rules of trotting, Walter Leonard -James Cameron, labourer, of Dunedin, appeared before the Board to-day and was represented by counsel, who called as a witness Daniel Donnelly, son of AH’s Donnelly who sold the gelding Kingsdale to him.

In tlie course of his evidence. Donnelly declared that tlie horse was purchased on about September 16, 1923. It was then green, bftt won at Gore just over a month later in 2.21.

After bearing this evidence, that of Cameron and the statement made to the Association’s representative, and the police, the Board found that the information supplied by Cameron at the time he registered the horse was wilfully and corruptly incorrect, and that he and the horse Kingsdale be disqualified for life under rule 337, sub-section IT, for wilfully and corruptly supplying false information to the Association respecting his application for registration of Kingsdale and the identity of the horse.

With regard to John Richards, wool and skin merchant, Dunedin, \vho failed to appear iti answer to the Association’s summons, the Board unanimously decided that he lie disqualified for life for refusing to supply information regarding his investments on the totalisator and supplying false information to the Association’s representative. The question of the disposal of the stake won by Kingsdale at Gore was held over till next meeting.